Liberando
Airman
Hello all,trying to find out the names Japanese Pilots called their aircraft, particularly "The Sally". Anyone know where I might locate this info?Thanks~A
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In the Japanese army, operating units usually called their a/c by their year-type designations, or contractions thereof. So 'Sally' was called 'Type 97 Heavy Bomber', '97 shiki juh bakugeki-ki', '97 shiki juh-baku' for short or just 97 shiki if clear one was referring to a bomber. '97' meant 1937. Even after the Japanese Army started adding names to the year type designations (the Type 97 didn't have one), those names were not generally used by operating units, eg. 'Tony' the Type 3 Fighter, named 'Hien' (Swallow) was still usually called 'Type 3 Fighter' by its operators, 3 meaning 1943.But thats not what I was asking, I was asking what the Japanese pilots called their aircraft?
Hello all,trying to find out the names Japanese Pilots called their aircraft, particularly "The Sally". Anyone know where I might locate this info?Thanks~A